Quotes About Autonomy

El que tiene fe en si mismo no necesita que los demás crean en él.

Él no tenía autonomía ni capacidad de decisión. El poder de decisión le llega al hombre cuando ya no le hace falta para nada; cuando ni un solo día puede dejar de guiar un carro o picar piedra si no quiere quedarse sin comer. ¿Para qué le valía, entonces, la capacidad de decisión de un hombre, si puede saberse? La vida era el peor tirano conocido. Cuando la vida le agarra a uno, sobra todo poder de decisión.

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.

Power returns to the person when rewards are no longer relegated to outside forces.

To be distracted against one's will is the surest sign that one is not in control.

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself.

what drove me on to be my own boss was that the thing that I wanted most was to be able to have a nap every day

A self that is only differentiated—not integrated—may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person whose self is based exclusively on integration will be connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.

consciousness has developed the ability to override its genetic instructions and to set its own independent course of action.

I am free, free in my work, because I do whatever I want. If I don't do something today I will do it tomorrow. I don't have a boss, I am the boss of my own life. I have kept my freedom and I have fought for my freedom.

Shaping one's own reality, living in a world one has created, can be as enjoyable as writing a symphony. No

Instead of feeling oppressed by the necessity to work hard, they share the opinion of Giuliana B., a seventy-four-year-old lady: "I am free, free in my work, because I do whatever I want. If I don't do something today I will do it tomorrow. I don't have a boss, I am the boss of my own life. I have kept my freedom and I have fought for my freedom." Certainly

The term "autotelic" derives from two Greek words, auto meaning self, and telos meaning goal. It refers to a self-contained activity, one that is done not with the expectation of some future benefit, but simply because the doing itself is the reward.

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments.

Unselfconscious self-assurance. [...] one common attitude shared by such people was the implicit belief that their destiny was in their hands.

Power returns to the person when rewards are no longer relegated to outside forces. It is no longer necessary to struggle for goals that always seem to recede into the future, to end each boring day with the hope that tomorrow, perhaps, something good will happen. Instead of forever straining for the tantalizing prize dangled just out of reach, one begins to harvest the genuine rewards of living.

A similar distinction is that between discovered life themes, when a person writes the script for her actions out of personal experience and awareness of choice; and accepted life themes, when a person simply takes on a predetermined role from a script written long ago by others. Both

The important thing is that the energy is under their own control

Ideally, the end of extrinsically applied education should be the start of an education that is motivated intrinsically.

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.

Ne valgis ir g?rimas dievotum? rodo.Kvaila paisyti, kaip žmogus miega –virviniame gulte ar ant p?k? patal?. Valgau, k? noriu, ir miegu, kaip noriu, ir niekas negali man?s už tai smerkti. Tegul mano, kad aš kvaila, jei nori. Man tik geriau.

Kdo si postaví d?m, je jeho otrokem. Kdo obdÄ›lává p?du, je jejím otrokem.

There's usually no need to lecture or punish. It's much more effective to just let people feel the natural consequences of their choices.